John William Carrington (1783 – 10 December 1857) was a British civil servant who was the 9th
Civil Auditor General
The Auditor General of Sri Lanka ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති ''Śrī Laṃkā viganakādhipathi''; Tamil: இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை) is appointed by th ...
in
Ceylon
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. He was appointed on 1 December 1817, succeeding
E. Tolfrey
Edward Tolfrey (c. 1784 – 9 August 1821) was the 8th Civil Auditor General of British Ceylon.
Born in England, he was a cousin of William Tolfrey, also a civil servant in Ceylon.
He went out to Ceylon in 1801 and filled a number of civic app ...
, and held the office until 1823. He was succeeded by
Henry Augustus Marshall.
He was born around 1783, the younger brother of Sir
Codrington Edmund Carrington. He died on 10 December 1857 at his home at
Cambridge Terrace,
Hyde Park
Hyde Park may refer to:
Places
England
* Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London
* Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds
* Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
Austra ...
, London. His wife, Clara, 56, died later the same day.
References
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Auditors General of Sri Lanka
British colonial governors and administrators in Asia
1783 births
1857 deaths